'‘ Why Obaseki must constitute Ambrose Alli Varsity governing council’

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU), Ambrose Alli University ( AAU), Ekpoma, yesterday, called on Governor Godwin Obaseki to ensure a neutral, competent and experienced governing council for AAU, Ekpoma.

The union cautioned that a governing council that is not neutral, competent and experienced in university administration may exacerbate the current crises in the university.

This is contained in a statement signed by the Chairman and Assistant Secretary of ASUU, AAU, Ekpoma Chapter, Dr. Cyril Onogbosele and Dr. Willam Odion, respectively, and made available to newsmen in Benin City, Edo State.

The ASUU leaders said that the union’s statement is informed by recent hints about the expected announcement of a governing council for the university by the Edo State Government.

It also advised the state govevant university’s ernment rules to and be law, guided as regulations well by as the relon membership of the governing council, especially concerning academic qualification and relevant experience. The union said: “As a result, no member of the current controversial, expired and discredited Special Intervention Team ( SIT) of the university should make membership of the governing council expected to be constituted by the visitor .

“It would amount to robbing the proposed new governing council of neutrality if any member of the SIT is included in the new council. “The current university management, led by the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Asomwansonnieadagbonyin, who has acted for more than two years ( Since February 2022) in clear violation of the university’s law, rules and regulations should also give way to a new crop of principal officers.”